{"id":234,"date":"2004-11-30T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2004-11-30T18:29:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T18:29:44","slug":"transiting_through_icn_its_a_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/transiting_through_icn_its_a_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Transiting through ICN?  It&#8217;s a crapshoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;.so the ROK airlines (Korean Air, Asiana, etc) are trying to turn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/inchongate.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/inchongate.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Seoul Inchon<\/a> (ICN) into a regional hub.<br \/>\nCool, but&#8230;<br \/>\nmy flight arrived at 1715 from HKG.  I have to cool my heels here until 2000 when I have to get on yet another steel tube (AKA 747-400 PAX) for the 10 hour flight to LAX.<br \/>\nUpon arrival, transit passengers have to go through a security screening (why, since we did this already in HKG?).  Fair enough.<br \/>\nHowever, they only had two metal detectors active and the sensitivity was set so high that EVERYONE who went through set it off and got wanded.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d figure that a &#8220;world class&#8221; airport would be able to figure out when the majority of connecting flights are coming in and staff accordingly.<br \/>\nBut NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!<br \/>\nWasted 30 minutes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/incheonqueue.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/incheonqueue.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">queue<\/a> and finally got to the lounge.  Two saving graces from me being absolutely pissed about it all.<br \/>\nNumbah 1: There&#8217;s free wireless internet in the lounge here, unlike in HKG where anything that has to do with commmunications MUST be controlled by Pacific Century Cyber Works (what a dorky name) so they can make a buck offa you..<br \/>\nNumbah 2: The lounge here has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/inchonpocari.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/inchonpocari.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Shin Cup AND Pocari Sweat.<\/a>  And a shower.<br \/>\nWhich may leave me about 30 minutes to do some actual work.<br \/>\nNow why did I call this a crapshoot?  Because when I was heading to HKG through ICN 3 weeks back, it took all of five minutes to do this.<br \/>\nAnd oh yah, I like Asiana Airlines A LOT but be careful about the flights you choose.  If they are using a 747-400PAX avoid that flight.  These are combination cargo carriers\/passenger jets and it has none of the in flight amenities that Asiana is known for.<br \/>\nIt almost feels like a better maintained UA jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;.so the ROK airlines (Korean Air, Asiana, etc) are trying to turn Seoul Inchon (ICN) into a regional hub. Cool, but&#8230; my flight arrived at 1715 from HKG. I have to cool my heels here until 2000 when I have to get on yet another steel tube (AKA 747-400 PAX) for the 10 hour flight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/transiting_through_icn_its_a_c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transiting through ICN?  It&#8217;s a crapshoot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-11-hkg-nrt-and-pek","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-3M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}